Directory
Events
Conferences, summits, and award nights worth the airfare. Each entry carries a date, a venue, a ticket band, an audience profile, and a plain-English verdict — Worth it, Skip, or Depends — built from how the room actually trades, not the marketing copy on the host site.
Lead Generation World 2026
Worth it · leadgenJan 4–6, 2026 · San Diego
Smaller, vertical-focused alternative to the Vegas lead conferences; the room is denser in actual lead-buyers per square foot, which is what matters for deal velocity.
Ticket $$
Affiliate Summit West 2026
Worth itJan 12–14, 2026 · Las Vegas
The default room for US-based affiliates building their first major networking lap; the floor is dense with offer owners, networks, and agencies actively recruiting partners.
Ticket Free–$$$$
Affiliate World Dubai 2026
Worth itMar 4–5, 2026 · Dubai
The easiest single venue to meet GCC advertisers, MENA payment partners, and the European media buyers who fly in for the season — high signal for advertiser-heavy verticals.
Ticket $$$$
LeadsCon Las Vegas 2026
Worth it · leadgenMar 23–25, 2026 · Las Vegas
The dedicated room for the US lead-generation economy — insurance, mortgage, education, home services — and the call-center / contact-platform stack that surrounds it.
Ticket $$–$$$$
Performance Marketing Awards 2026
DependsMay 12, 2026 · London
Industry awards night rather than a working conference; valuable for senior visibility and team morale, less so for new-relationship prospecting unless tables are deliberately mixed.
Ticket $$$
Ad Age Programmatic 2026
DependsMay 19–20, 2026 · New York
Editorial-led day on the state of programmatic media — useful for the brand-side narrative, narrower in value for direct-response affiliate teams.
Ticket $$–$$$
Sthlm Affiliate Conference 2026
Worth it · igamingMay 26–27, 2026 · Stockholm
Tightly Nordic-flavored room with heavy iGaming and sports-betting presence; the most efficient way to map Stockholm-based operators and the Swedish affiliate ecosystem.
Ticket $$
Advertise & Marketing US 2026
DependsJun 15–16, 2026 · Chicago
Brand-side marketing conference with a small performance track; better suited to agencies and DTC operators than to affiliates prospecting new networks.
Ticket $$
iGB L!VE 2026
Worth it · igamingJul 7–10, 2026 · Amsterdam
Top of the calendar for European iGaming affiliate relationships; SEO publishers, sportsbook BD teams, and casino operators occupy most of the floor and side events.
Ticket Free–$$$
Affiliate World Europe 2026
Worth itJul 9–10, 2026 · Barcelona
The single highest-density week for European media-buying relationships; the after-hours circuit across Barcelona is where most EU partnerships actually start.
Ticket $$$–$$$$
Affiliate Summit East 2026
Worth itJul 27–28, 2026 · New York
Lower-key than the west-coast edition; the publisher-heavy mix makes it the better room when content + SaaS affiliate relationships are the goal rather than mass-affiliate media buying.
Ticket $$$
TES Affiliate Conferences Prague 2026
DependsSep 11–14, 2026 · Prague
Smaller, looser, party-driven event aimed at established affiliates renewing relationships rather than first-timers prospecting cold — pick it if your verticals are adult, dating, crypto, or iGaming-adjacent.
Ticket $–$$
DMEXCO 2026
DependsSep 23–24, 2026 · Cologne
Strong if the goal is mapping the European ad-tech vendor landscape in a single venue; weaker if the goal is direct affiliate or media-buying deal flow.
Ticket $$$
DI Conferences London 2026
DependsOct 6–7, 2026 · London
Narrow, practitioner-heavy programme covering customer-experience and partnership tooling; pick it if those overlap with how you measure affiliate value.
Ticket $$
PI LIVE Europe 2026
Worth itOct 19–21, 2026 · London
The default annual room for UK and EU partnership programs — retail, fintech, SaaS, and travel — where in-house affiliate managers and senior network reps both show up.
Ticket $$–$$$
Asia Affiliate Conference 2026
DependsOct 21–22, 2026 · Tokyo
Distinctly Japan-flavored event for partnerships into the local affiliate market; high signal if Japan is a target market, low if not.
Ticket $$–$$$
PerformanceIN Live 2026
DependsNov 4–5, 2026 · Amsterdam
Regional sibling to the London flagship; pick it if your accounts are weighted toward Benelux or DACH brands rather than the UK retail crowd.
Ticket $$
Affiliate Day London 2026
DependsNov 10, 2026 · London
Compact, practitioner-driven UK day for in-house affiliate teams; useful for tactical knowledge swaps rather than prospecting new networks.
Ticket $$
Affiliate Mafia Awards 2026
DependsNov 19, 2026 · London
Smaller, looser awards format with a recognisable senior crowd; treat it as a relationship-renewal evening rather than a working conference.
Ticket $$$
Affiliate World Asia 2026
Worth itDec 9–10, 2026 · Bangkok
The room where most APAC-flavored media-buying relationships are formed; the week of unofficial side events around the venue is arguably more valuable than the floor itself.
Ticket $$$–$$$$
How we pick what to cover
The directory leans toward events where deals actually close — the ones whose floors and side circuits hold senior offer owners, partnership leads, and the agencies running them. Award nights are flagged separately, since their value is recognition rather than deal flow. Editorial verdicts are anchored to what a working practitioner gets out of the room, not the floor count or the size of the keynote.